Keeping Your Church From a Slow Death

Keeping Your Church From a Slow Death

Left to itself, the universe tends towards chaos. This is the fundamental truth behind the Second Law of Thermodynamics. A rolling ball will lose its energy until it stops. A rubber band will break or snap back rather than be infinitely stretched. And a church that...
Results-Based Discipleship: From Status Quo to Growth

Results-Based Discipleship: From Status Quo to Growth

Church Revitalization Podcast – Episode 88 Is an ineffective discipleship model a concern for you in your church?  We’re constructing results-based discipleship today on the Church Revitalization Podcast. Watch the video version of this episode on YouTube,...
What Difference Does Emotional Intelligence Make?

What Difference Does Emotional Intelligence Make?

Church Revitalization Podcast – Episode 87 Why write a book or offer a course on emotional intelligence? Is it really that important to the church and its leaders? Following are fourteen reasons why every Christian in general and leaders, in particular, should...
Challenging the Status Quo: How Churches Can Inspire Deep Change

Challenging the Status Quo: How Churches Can Inspire Deep Change

Church Revitalization Podcast – Episode 86 By definition, the status quo is the current state of affairs.  You may consider it a snapshot in time.  For some churches though, a snapshot taken today would look the same as a snapshot taken five years ago,...
Church Strategic Planning: How to Create a Planning Rhythm

Church Strategic Planning: How to Create a Planning Rhythm

Church Revitalization Podcast – Episode 85 At its core, good church strategic planning is not an event—it is a process of continuous improvement. Most churches fail to make plans. Or, at best, they will put ideas on paper but fail to follow through. The tyranny...